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May 4, 2023
Houston, Texas, is the only major U.S. city with no zoning laws.
May 3, 2023
The sound of Darth Vader's heavy breathing is copyrighted!
May 2, 2023
NASA built a wind tunnel in 1965 that could produce speeds of up to Mach 50 - more than 38,000 mph!
May 1, 2023
A black mamba can slither at a speed of 12.5 mph!
Sunday cartoon! - April 30, 2023
The northern cardinal is the most popular state bird, with Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, North Carolina, Ohio, Virginia and West Virginia all picking the species.
Art & Fashion
Meet the "Fish-Caster," a custom Telecaster with a real, preserved piranha sealed in resin!
Food
A hungover stockbroker, a lust-fighting minister, and a maître d' whose cook went missing—meet the real people hiding on your menu.
People
A dad from Riverside, Illinois, spent 130 hours turning wine corks into a wearable flotation suit!
Take things to the next level! Ripley’s twentieth edition annual book is full of all-new, all-true stories from around the world.
August 15, 2026
Passengers at a Lithuanian train station are greeted by a 15-foot-tall statue of Tony Soprano.
Robert Ripley began the Believe It or Not! cartoon in 1918. Today, it continues uninterrupted as the world’s longest-running syndicated cartoon.
